High aperture wide angle lens



350-471 SR SEARCH 195.3 I JlRO MUKAI 2, 0

HIGH APERTURE wms ANGLE LENS Filed Jan. 4. 1956 FIG- 4 'o.o1 o -om o 2 Z 0 SPHERICAL ABERRATXON ASTIGMATIC ABERRATION DISTORTION ABERRATION,

mmvron BY J/RO Mum! 'ATT RN K This invention relates to high aperture wide angle lenses in which major image distortion and astigmatic I United States Patent O difierences are elimination without introducing an increase in the other abberation as such as is observed and constitute vital defects in the prior known wide angle lenses having a wide aperture of F: 1.8.

A clearer concept of the scope and purpose of this invention may be obtained from the following description,

taken in connection with the attached drawing, in which: I

Fig. 1 shows a sectional view of one illustrative embodiment of the wide angle lens having a total angle of sixty degrees with an aperture of F:1.8 according to this invention; and

Figs. 2 to 4 inclusive show the aberration graphs spherical, astigmatic and distortional, of the lens of this invention.

The structure of the lens according to this invention comprises four air spaced groups of a total of seven lenses, the first group being a positive. meniscus lens L positioned with its convex surface towards the object, the second group being a meniscus lens comprising a positive lens L and a negative lens L cemented together and positioned with its convex surface and cemented surface r towards the object, the third group being a meniscus lens comprising three lenses L L and L cemented in the order of positive, negative and positive, positioned with its concave surface towards the object, havingr of the two cemented surfaces strongly curved towards the object, and the fourth group is a positive convex lens L The following conditions must be satisfied by the lenses of the instant invention, where the successive radii of curvature in the direction from the object to the image side are designated by r with an increasing subscript, the axial spacings between lenses by d with similarly increas-' ing subscripts, the indices of refraction of the d-lines of the optical glass of the successive lenses by N with similarly. increasing subscripts, the dispersive powers of such lenses by Vwith similarly increasing subscripts, and f the effective focal length of the complete lens array:

' spectrum g-line from the sine condition, of the lenses of the invention. In Fig. 3, the heavy solid line A is the graph of the sagital field curvature, and the fine broken line A that of the meridional field curvature. In Fig. 4,

the heavy solid line D is the graph of the distortion aberration for each angle of incidence.

The specific data for one embodiment of the lens array of the instant invention is:

dz =0.079 Na=1.6584 Vz=50.8 h I 0. 573

t =0. 032 N's-1. 6987 V:=30. 1 TI I 0. 267

dt 0. 230 1'; ll 0. 297

(11 =0. 026 Nt=1. 5750 Vs=4l. 3 1'5 -3. 299

d1o=0. O83 N7=1. 6935 V1=53. 5 Tu -1. 057

In this invention, when the condition of is given for the meniscus lens group ML, and the index of refraction for the d-line of the lenses L1, L2, L4, L5, L7 given as 1.6 N,, N N 1.72, the lens array is kept at a Petzval sum of about 0.25, the image is flat-and, in addition, the astigmatic difference is less, see Fig. 3. Facing the cemented convex surface r, of lens group L L towards the object serves effectively to reduce the chromatic aberration of magnification. By observing the relations d +d, 0.13 f for the thickness of the second group along the optical axis 0.18 f d 0.28 f for the distance along the optical axis between lenses L and L and 0.16 f r-; 0.25 f for the radius of curvature of the cemented surface of L L coma aberration around 20 of picture angle in the image field can be minimized. The differences in the indicesof the refraction of d-line in lenses L and L should be chosen above 0.08 for the purpose of reducing coma aberration. By so doing, very satisfactory results will be obtained as shown in the aberration graphs of Figs. 2 to 4. Notwithstanding its a high aperture of F:1.8, the wide angle objective of the instant invention has a greatly reduced and essentially eliminated image curvature and astigmatic difference as compared to prior known wide angle lens arrays and with the stated advantages does not adversely affect the. other aberrations.

What I claim is: I

1. A high aperture wide angle photographic objective of seven lenses divided into four groups air-spaced from each other comprising a first positive meniscus lens with its convex surface facing the object side of the objective, the second group is a second positive meniscus lens and a first negative meniscus lens cemented to each other with the cemented convex surfaces thereof facing such object side, the third group is a third positive meniscus lens, a second negative meniscus lens, anda fourth positive meniscus lens cemented at the adjacent faces and with the concave surface of the third group towardsuch object side, and the fourth group is a bi-convex lens, in which the radii of curvature r Subsmp, of the in dividual lens surfaces in succession from the object side of the objective, the distances d subsmp, along the 'optical axis of the lens thicknesses and air spacings, and the 3 4 refractive indices N of the d-line of the inthe dispersion factors,v of the individual lenses, dividual lenses, satisfy the relations: are:

03 f a 45 f [i=1.00 F:1.8 Includingangle=60l d,+d 0.13 f a Lens Radii r 35?? N v 0.18 f d 0.28 f p v Y Distances 1.6 (N ,N,) 1.67 n= 1.787 and rs 0. 369 005 1-6 (N4,Ng,N7) 1-72 L1 n: 0673 at =o.o1s N1=-1.6584 v==5o.s where) is the effective focal length of the entire obn- 0.267 0'032 NI 1'6987 Va 3M dl =0. 230 ective. n 297 2. A high aperture wide angle photographic objective L4 a. =0.05s N4=1-6204' v.-e0.a

of seven lenses. air spaced into four groups comprising 215 (1780026 NFLW') a first positive meniscus lens of which the convex surn =--3.29e face faces the object side of the objective, a second posi- 41422 N=L6779 tive meniscus lens is cemented to a first negative meniscus do =0. 001 lens to constitute the second group of which the cemented 259 dm=0083 N1=L6935 71,553 convex surfaces face suchobject side, a third positive m=--1.057 meniscus lens is cemented to a second negative meniscus lens which in turn is cemented to a fourth positive miniscus lens to constitute the third group of References cued m the file of thls patent which the concave surface and the cemented interface UNITED STA ES ATENTS 1 of the second negative and the fourth positive meniscus 2,130,760 warmisham Sept. 20, 1933 lenses are toward such object side, and a first biconvex 2,339,016 Wynne Nov. 13, 1945 lens in which the radii of curvature, r subscript, o t e 2, 11,29 Schade Sept, 1952 individual lens surfaces in succession from the object 2,645,973 n July 21 1953 side of the objective, the distances, d subscript, along the optical axis of the lens thicknesses and the air spacings, FOREIGN PATENTS and the refractive indices, N mam, of the d-line and 323,138 Great Britain Dec. 24, 1929 

